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on account of those who had the power to protest [against wrongdoing] and did not protest; and on account of those who publicly declare their intention to give specified sums for charity and do not give. Rab said, On account of four things is the property of householders confiscated by the state treasury:1 On account of those who defer payment of the labourer's hire; on account of those who withhold the hired labourer's wages; on account of those who remove the yoke from off their necks and place it on [the necks] of their fellows2 and on account of arrogance. And the sin of arrogance is equivalent to all [the others] whereas of the humble it is written, But the humble shall inherit the land, and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.3 C H A P T E R III MISHNAH. A STOLEN OR A WITHERED PALM-BRANCH4 IS INVALID. ONE [THAT CAME] FROM AN ASHERAH5 OR FROM A CONDEMNED CITY,6 IS INVALID. IF ITS TOP WAS BROKEN OFF OR ITS LEAVES WERE DETACHED,7 IT IS INVALID. IF ITS LEAVES ARE MERELY SPREAD APART8 IT IS VALID. R. JUDAH SAYS, HE SHOULD TIE THEM UP AT THE TOP. THE THORN-PALMS OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN9 ARE VALID.10 A PALM-BRANCH WHICH IS THREE HANDBREADTHS IN LENGTH, LONG ENOUGH TO WAVE, IS VALID. GEMARA. [The Tanna]11 categorically teaches [that the PALMBRANCH IS INVALID] irrespective of whether [it is to be used] on the first day of the Festival12 or on the second day.13 Now this is right as regards a withered palm since we must have [a branch that is] ‘goodly’14 which this one is not; but with regard to a stolen one, the law is quite right as far as the first day of the Festival is concerned, since it is written, ‘to you’14 [which implies that it shall be] of your own, but why should it not be allowed on the second day?15 — R. Johanan answered in the name of R. Simeon b. Yohai,